At 6, I Promised My Best Friend with Down Syndrome We’d Go to Prom Together – 12 Years Later, Mom Said I Could Go with Him Only on One Condition

did.

At fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen, he kept doing it.

By eighteen, nobody was asking anymore.

Prom Night Finally Made the Difference Clear

There is a difference between staying because you promised and staying because you choose someone over and over again.

That night, my mother finally saw it.

So did I.

The little boy in the school parking continue reading …